Muslims against Muslim terrorism
A Boston Herald article on Muslims dealing with Muslim terrorism quotes Kamal Nawash at some length. Nawash is the founder of Free Muslims Coalition, an organization that works mobilize American Muslims against Muslim terrorism. Nawash has taken the in my eyes intuitive route: He came to America as a Palestianian refugee in 1979, has taken advantage of the opportunities provided by his new country, and is thankful for those opportunities (the counter-intuitive route is coming to America for an opportunity to live a life as a victim, the route preferred by far too many modern-day immigrants). Here’s Nawash as quoted by the Herald:
“The war on terror has to be more than a military fight,” said Kamal Nawash, president of the Free Muslims Coalition in Washington, D.C. “At its heart, Muslim terrorism is an ideological war. And ultimately, only Muslims can stop it.”
In May, the coalition sponsored an anti-terrorism rally that attracted thousands of Muslims to the capital. And it is developing a curriculum for Islamic schools, using the Koran to discredit what Nawash calls the “sick ideology” terrorists use to justify mass murder. One group can only do so much, he concedes. And he does not mince words in his assessment of the overall Muslim response to terrorism.
“The Muslim leadership has not done its fair share, and what they have done has been useless,” he said. “What good is it to take out ads in newspapers non-Muslims read and make speeches non-Muslims hear? It’s a public-relations ploy to prevent backlash.”
Nawash attributes the failure of some Muslim leaders to take more aggressive action to a combination of incompetence and a preoccupation with the victimization of Muslims, from the time of the prophet Mohammad to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Non-Muslims can’t stop Muslim terrorism with less than expelling all Muslisms. It just can’t be done. Muslims, on the other hand, can defeat it by cooperating with law enforcement and confronting the Caliphatistas in our country.
Considering that Catholics and Protestants have found it possible, with time even easy, to co-exist while competing for souls, it shouldn’t be difficult for Muslims to co-exist with Christians in America. It does, however, require accepting that the words of the Prophet will never become the law of the land. I’m not saying that’s a small price to pay, but it is one one should be willing to pay for the privilege of living in America. It is, at any rate, a non-negotiable price.
